[HTC Incredible S] moose.splash1:
Here's a guide to unlocking the bootloader, flash a recovery image, and install a custom ROM on your Incredible s.

If you're not experienced with this sort of thing I advise you get help or not do it at all. I'm not responsible for anything that happens to your phone, but it is highly rare that anything will go wrong :)

1. Go to www.htcdev.com and log in/create an account. When logged in, click on 'Unlock Bootloader'

Now simply follow the on screen instructions provided by HTC. Some of the process requires getting some files from the Android SDK and you will needs the HTC drivers which come with HTC Sync, but this will all be explained through the process.

Now as I said, you need some files from the SDK which you can get here:

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/4263022/HTC Dev Tools.zip

I recommend putting these somewhere easy like the root of your C: drive in a folder called 'Android' like I will for the tutori. If you're still sure, select yes, and the process will complete.

2) you should see a little message pop up now asking if you'd like to go ahead and unlock the boot loader. Select yes.

3. Once done, your phone's bootloader will be unlocked, this will enable you to flash a recovery image.

4. Go to

http://download2.clockworkmod.com/re...0.2.0-vivo.img

and download the recovery image for the Incredible S. Put it in the "android" folder with the other files needed for the unlock process. This file is the ClockWorkMod recovery for the incredible s.

5. Shut down your phone. Plug it in via USB to your PC which you set up during the HTC unlock process. Hold volume down, and press power and the phone will boot into the bootloader. Wait for it to scan your SD card, then ensure "Fastboot" is highlighted and press power.

6. On your PC, load up a command prompt - open the Start menu, go to Run, and type "cmd".

7. In the command prompt window, type the following, assuming the HTC unlock files are all in C:android.

cd c:android

Then type:

fastboot flash recovery <recovery_name.img>

Don't forget the .img on the end, and replace "recovery_name" with the specific name of the recovery image you want to use. For ClockWorkMod linked to in step 4, you'd type:

fastboot flash recovery cwm-4.0.1.4-vivo.img

After a few seconds, ClockWordMod will have been flashed to your phone.

8. Reboot your phone, there should be an option in the fastboot menu (volume up and down to navigate, power to select). It should boot as per normal. Put it into USB disk mode, and download a ROM that you'd like to use. CyanogenMod is what I'm going to use: http://www.cyanogenmod.com/devices/htc-incredible-s

Download the ROM and place it in the root of your SD card

9. Power off the phone. Hold volume down and press power to boot back into the bootloader. Use volume down to select "Recovery" and press power. ClockWorkMod recovery will load.

10. Using volume up/down and power to select, go down to Backup/Restore. Select it, then click backup. ClockWorkMod will backup your stock ROM in case there are any needs to switch back.

11. After that (takes about 5 minutes), go back to the main menu. Select wipe data/factory reset and confirm. Go back to the main menu, select Advanced > Wipe Dalvik cache

12. Go to the main menu, and select "Install zip from sdcard". Next choose "Select Zip from SD card" and select the ROM you'd like to install. Confirm this action, and ClockWorkMod will install your new ROM. When done, shut down your phone.

13. Ordinarily you'd be done after that, and you could boot into your new ROM. However HBOOT 1.16 does some random stuff and tends to cause problems. I think it interferes with the installation of the boot.img that ordinarily would be flashed with the ROM. Get the ROM that you downloaded earlier (CyanogenMod in this tutorial), and on your computer, unzip the file somewhere. Once done, inside you'll see a file called "boot.img". Put this in the same folder as your other Android tools that you used earlier. Power your phone on, hold volume down, but don't choose "recovery", choose "usb fastboot".

14. Open up your command prompt again (Start > Run > "cmd"), and type (using the "android" folder for this example):

cd c:android
fastboot flash boot boot.img

This will flash the boot.img to your phone.

Power off the phone, reboot it, and that should be it!

If this helps please leave a thank you. :)

Good luck :)